Galloper Wind Farm Project - National Infrastructure Planning

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6.4. Operational Effects on Landscape Character Types
6.4.1. The proposed WTGs are located well beyond any of the landscape character
types lying within the study area. The proposed GWF will not, therefore,
result in any physical effect upon any of the landscape character types within
the study area. Any effects arising will be limited, therefore, to indirect
effects upon the visual attributes of the landscape character types.
6.4.2. Analysis of the ZTV and on site assessment confirms there is unlikely to be
any visibility of the proposed WTGs from the following landscape character
types due to their distance from the proposed WTGs and the screening effects
of vegetation and landform in the intervening landscape:
� Ancient Estate Claylands;
� Plateau Estate Farmlands;
� Rolling Estate Claylands;
� Valley Meadowlands; and
� Valley Meadows & Fens.
6.4.3. The magnitude and overall significance of effect on these landscape character
types is assessed, therefore, to be Negligible.
6.4.4. Analysis of the ZTV and on site assessment also confirms that there is no
anticipated visibility between the proposed WTGs and the following
landscape character types due to the low-lying nature of the landform that
characterises them, the localised screening effect of vegetation and the
presence of coastal embankments and sea defences limiting views towards
the sea:
� Open Coastal Fens; and
� Saltmarsh and Intertidal Flats.
6.4.5. The magnitude and overall significance of effect on these landscape character
types is assessed, therefore, to be Negligible.
6.4.6. There will be very distant, glimpsed and partial views towards the proposed
WTGs from within the Estate Sandlands landscape character type from a
limited number of elevated areas that lie immediately adjacent to the lowerlying
landscape character types of the Coastal Levels and the Rolling Estate
Sandlands. Viewpoint 1 lies within the Estate Sandlands, albeit on a manmade
elevated landform within Orford Castle.